Shootout with Smugglers on Greek Border

 The Associated Press

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — A shootout between smugglers of illegal immigrants and Greek authorities on the Greek-Turkish border left two smugglers wounded, authorities said Friday. A patrol of Greek police and border guards from the European Union Frontex border protection agency came under fire shortly after midnight after spotting a group of smugglers who had transported 25 illegal immigrants in a rubber dingy across a river from neighboring Turkey, police said.

Two of the three smugglers, a Turk and a Pakistani, were wounded, while one escaped back across the border to Turkey, authorities said. The two were being treated in a hospital in the nearby town of Alexandroupolis, while the 25 migrants — 19 Bangladeshis and six Pakistanis — were detained.